Lynne

“It doesn't really matter what a person decides to do, or how radically a person plays with gender. What matters, I think, is how aware a person is of the options.”
― Kate Bornstein, Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us

“The Gender Defender is someone who actively, or by knowing inaction, defends the status quo of the existing gender system, and thus perpetuates the violence of male privilege and all its social extensions. The gender defender, or gender terrorist, is someone for whom gender forms a cornerstone of their view of the world. Shake gender up for one of these folks, and you're in trouble.”
― Kate Bornstein, Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us